April 29, 2006

Windows Mobile Team Blog : What's A "Compaction Thread"?

http://blogs.msdn.com/windowsmobile/archive/2006/03/16/552996.aspx explains why things can be slower on Windows Mobile 5.0
Posted by jzawodn at 08:46 PM

Internet Outsider: MSN: Another Quarter Closer To Irrelevant

http://www.internetoutsider.com/2006/04/msn_another_qua.html Microsoft needs to buy Yahoo, but they'll never do it.
Posted by jzawodn at 08:46 PM

The Apps Behind Omnidrive

http://www.nik.com.au/archives/2006/04/29/the-apps-behind-omnidrive/ a look at the services that Nik uses for his company
Posted by jzawodn at 08:24 PM

Stolen Yahoo! accounts - What to do

http://yahoo.weblogsinc.com/2006/04/29/stolen-yahoo-accounts-what-to-do/ some great tips and advice from The Unofficial Yahoo Weblog
Posted by jzawodn at 08:23 PM

Sun Microsystems Corporate Strategy

http://origin.arstechnica.com/journals/microsoft.media/sunstrategy.gif It's funny because it's true...
Posted by jzawodn at 08:23 PM

NPR : Living in the 'Star Trek' Universe -- For Real

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5359397 "So after a bitter breakup, he remodeled his condominium to look like the inside of the Starship Enterprise."
Posted by jzawodn at 08:23 PM

April 28, 2006

Sleepy head Cat

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3573852431733156394&pl=true your daily dose of cute
Posted by jzawodn at 06:23 PM

The Ultimate Commenting Experience

http://www.dashes.com/anil/2006/04/27/the_ultimate_co "Type out whatever opinion you've had on this topic your entire life. Don't waste time with spelling or punctuation, and be careful not to let any new information on the page influence your thoughts."
Posted by jzawodn at 11:46 AM

April 27, 2006

Yahoo! It’s time to buy YHOO.

http://joeduck.wordpress.com/2006/04/27/yahoo-its-time-to-buy-yhoo/ Joe's getting excited about Yahoo's potential on wall street
Posted by jzawodn at 06:46 PM

Why the small will overcome

http://www.horsepigcow.com/2006/04/why-small-will-overcome.html "The Giant Corporations are Asleep"
Posted by jzawodn at 06:46 PM

Introducing Falcon (Storage Engine for MySQL)

http://mike.kruckenberg.com/archives/2006/04/jim_starkey_int.html a good summary of the newest(?) storage engine for MySQL
Posted by jzawodn at 06:46 PM

April 26, 2006

Is Google Search More Relevant Or Is There A Brand Factor?

http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/060426-122653 maybe both?
Posted by jzawodn at 01:03 PM

Bush Approval Ratings vs. Gas Prices

http://paul.kedrosky.com/archives/2006/04/26/bush_approval_r.html it's exactly what you'd expect to see
Posted by jzawodn at 01:02 PM

Dynamic Propeller Balancing

http://www.balancemyprop.com/ blancemyprop.com is a great domain name for this, though the site is butt ugly
Posted by jzawodn at 01:01 PM

Changing the Homepage on the Motorola v710

http://persistent.info/archives/2006/04/26/v710-homepage kick ass! I've always wondered to how to make the v710 browser suck less
Posted by jzawodn at 01:00 PM

Bad Behavior

http://www.ioerror.us/software/bad-behavior/ Bad Behavior is a set of PHP scripts which prevents spambots from accessing your site by analyzing their actual HTTP requests and comparing them to profiles from known spambots.
Posted by jzawodn at 09:23 AM

Steffy the Rubber Doll’s Web Page

http://members.shaw.ca/steffytherubberdoll/ These rubberist and latex people are creepy!
Posted by jzawodn at 08:23 AM

Third Hand

http://www.jameco.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?langId=-1&storeId=10001&catalogId=10001&productId=26690 a useful little tool for helping with electronics projects
Posted by jzawodn at 07:46 AM

April 25, 2006

HOWTO: Hosting An Orgy

http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2006/4/24/04113/4386 "Here's some tips to make your next orgy a success."
Posted by jzawodn at 10:46 PM

I've got the world's longest tongue

http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/world/newsid_1646000/1646912.stm "I'm just proud that now people everywhere can read about me and my tongue," she said.
Posted by jzawodn at 06:23 PM

USGS Releases Geologic Maps for Google Earth

http://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2006/04/usgs_releases_g.html "The US Geological Survey (USGS) has added more earthquake related visualizations for Google Earth. A couple of weeks ago they released a large collection of visualizations for GE as part of the 100th year anniversary of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake.
Posted by jzawodn at 05:23 PM

How Does OpenID Work?

http://www.windley.com/archives/2006/04/how_does_openid.shtml Phil draws a picture and explains the OpenID flow
Posted by jzawodn at 04:24 PM

Scriptless Flickr Badge generator

http://flickrbadge.theducky.com/ for myspace, livejournal, and such places where you cannot use JavaScript badges
Posted by jzawodn at 04:23 PM

Anatomy of a Luke Harness

http://www.lukeracing.co.uk/anat.php a nice 6-point harness for aircraft
Posted by jzawodn at 03:23 PM

Porn-related Firefox crashes

http://www.squarefree.com/2006/04/25/porn-related-crashes/ "Surfing porn. Dude, what the hell, I need my pr0n!"
Posted by jzawodn at 03:00 PM

Yahoo! Bangalore Hack Day: a report

http://www.chaddickerson.com/blog/2006/04/25/yahoo-bangalore-hack-day-a-report/ it basically rocked
Posted by jzawodn at 02:24 PM

Early Amazon: Shopping cart recommendations

http://glinden.blogspot.com/2006/04/early-amazon-shopping-cart.html "In my experience, innovation can only come from the bottom. Those closest to the problem are in the best position to solve it. I believe any organization that depends on innovation must embrace chaos"
Posted by jzawodn at 02:23 PM

The Ressurection of Al Gore

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.05/gore.html "These days, Gore speaks with a verve and conviction that were often sorely absent during his political days."
Posted by jzawodn at 08:23 AM

Find the codes that ATC wants for various aircraft here

http://www.faa.gov/ATpubs/ATC/Appendices/atcapda.html The FAA's reference for ATC Fixed-Wing Aircraft designators and such
Posted by jzawodn at 08:23 AM

April 24, 2006

Expanding Gmail's Filter Input

http://persistent.info/archives/2006/04/23/gmail-filter a ncie bit of hackery
Posted by jzawodn at 08:23 PM

Apparently no one gets fat in Europe

http://www.megnut.com/2006/04/apparently-no-one-gets-fat-in-europe I try to just follow an "everything in moderation" approach.
Posted by jzawodn at 06:23 PM

Axe-wielding men abduct dad from wedding

http://go.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=11942599&src=rss/oddlyEnoughNews "Three Zimbabwe men prevented their father from committing bigamy by abducting him from his own wedding..." Awesome.
Posted by jzawodn at 02:46 PM

Python GCal Api

http://matt.poepping.googlepages.com/gcalpython Python Interface to google calendar
Posted by jzawodn at 01:24 PM

Paul Hammond comes to Yahoo

http://www.paulhammond.org/2006/04/newjob/ Welcome aboard!
Posted by jzawodn at 01:23 PM

Digital cameras leave 'fingerprints' on their snaps - Breaking News

http://www.newscientisttech.com/article.ns?id=dn9046&print=true big brother is watching!
Posted by jzawodn at 01:23 PM

CEO pay eclipses ridiculous

http://www.sptimes.com/2006/04/24/Columns/CEO_pay_eclipses_ridi.shtml "CEOs at larger U.S. corporations on average earn $430 for every $1 earned by the average U.S. worker. Twenty-six years ago, CEOs received an average of $10 for every $1 earned by a U.S. worker."
Posted by jzawodn at 11:46 AM

David Sifry and Technorati Get On My Nerves

http://www.25hoursaday.com/weblog/PermaLink.aspx?guid=d7b28417-6616-48a9-a331-0fd7b5106c8a "Dave Sifry plays fast and lose with language by interchangeably using blogosphere and number of blogs Technorati is tracking."
Posted by jzawodn at 11:23 AM

Is Concentration the New Competitive Advantage?

http://www.businesspundit.com/50226711/is_concentration_the_new_competitive_advantage.php ...the way the constant collection of information becomes an easy substitute for trying to achieve any kind of true understanding
Posted by jzawodn at 09:24 AM

On Pokemonetisation...

http://www.plasticbag.org/archives/2006/04/on_pokemonetisation.shtml Simon is a wise Harry Potter
Posted by jzawodn at 09:24 AM

Tru-Laser Distance Measurer

http://www.kk.org/cooltools/archives/001210.php a handy tool if you measure a lot
Posted by jzawodn at 09:24 AM

Among the audience

http://www.economist.com/surveys/displaystory.cfm?story_id=6794156 a "new media" survey story published in the Economist, in which several Yahoos are quoted
Posted by jzawodn at 09:23 AM

MenuPages.com

http://www.menupages.com/ they scanned a bunch of menus and put them online
Posted by jzawodn at 09:23 AM

April 22, 2006

The Pilot's Guide to Multiple Ownership: Co-Ownership and Flying Clubs

http://www.aopa.org/members/files/guides/multiple.html a useful guide from AOPA
Posted by jzawodn at 01:23 PM

April 21, 2006

DuVernois Blog: Religion from South Park

http://blog.lib.umn.edu/duver001/nwn/013585.html "You see, it's our tears, Stan, that give God his great power."
Posted by jzawodn at 07:46 PM

Rainbow at Elam Bend (McFall, Missouri)

http://www.missouriskies.org/rainbow/february_rainbow_2006.html nice pics!
Posted by jzawodn at 07:46 PM

101-pound man eats 6,500 calories a day

http://www.supersizedmeals.com/food/article.php/20060421165631399 now that's fucked up
Posted by jzawodn at 05:23 PM

It Pays the Bills

http://ypnblog.com/blog/2006/04/19/it-pay-the-bills/#comments "In all the excitement surrounding self-serve contextual advertising in the last few years, people often overlook one of the more important byproducts: the fact that it pays the bills."
Posted by jzawodn at 03:23 PM

Google Calendar creates a platform for "time" applications

http://blogs.forrester.com/charleneli/2006/04/google_calendar.html "As long as I am using Yahoo! Calendar, Google risks me using services like search." - Charlene Li
Posted by jzawodn at 03:23 PM

Bellanca, Citabria, Bellanca-Champion Club Official Site

http://www.bellanca-championclub.com/ Dedicated to the Bellanca Cruisair, Cruisemaster, Viking, American Champion Citabria, Decathlon, Scout, Champion and AviaBellanca Skyrocket lines of aircraft, their furtherance, history, preservation and maintenance.
Posted by jzawodn at 03:23 PM

Life after Yahoo

http://www.wdr1.com/dave/archives/000791.html "After nearly 6 years working at Yahoo, I decided to resign. I'm sure your first question is: WHY?"
Posted by jzawodn at 02:46 PM

Steve Jobs Informs the Cupertino City Council of Plans for a Second Campus

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mezlF6Mu904&search=steve%20jobs%20cupertino they're obviously glad to hear it
Posted by jzawodn at 12:23 PM

The Cure for Information Overload

http://thomashawk.com/2006/04/cure-for-information-overload.html it really works!
Posted by jzawodn at 11:23 AM

Phony doctor gives free breast exams

http://go.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=11908165&src=rss/oddlyEnoughNews oh, now there's an original idea. I'm sure he's not the first to try it.
Posted by jzawodn at 11:23 AM

Yahoo! Maps, Your Way

http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000290.html some good new stuff for Maps hackers
Posted by jzawodn at 08:46 AM

Canon EOS Digital SLR System

http://philip.greenspun.com/photography/canon/system "The Canon EOS system of digital single-lens reflex (SLR) bodies and lenses is the standard choice among professional photographers worldwide. This page makes it easy to shop for Canon digital bodies and EOS lenses."
Posted by jzawodn at 08:46 AM

apophenia: medical marijuana

http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2006/04/20/medical_marijua_1.html "It royally sucks that i have to feel like a criminal for using natural plants to heal while there's nothing criminal about the $600+ i spent per month getting addicted to an FDA-approved drug."
Posted by jzawodn at 08:23 AM

April 20, 2006

Schultz on PubCon: Blogging Advice From Jeremy Zawodny, Matt Cutts and Robert Scoble

http://www.searchenginelowdown.com/2006/04/schultz-on-pubcon-blogging-advice-from.html a decent summary of our morning panel at wmw2006 in boston
Posted by jzawodn at 12:46 PM

April 19, 2006

Working at Microsoft

http://www.qbrundage.com/michaelb/pubs/essays/working_at_microsoft.html it's not all evil plots and scary stuff
Posted by jzawodn at 09:23 PM

Apple sucks

http://www.chaddickerson.com/blog/2006/04/19/apple-sucks/ uh, no shit
Posted by jzawodn at 01:23 PM

Yahoo! Publisher Network » Blog Archive » It Pays the Bills

http://ypnblog.com/blog/2006/04/19/it-pay-the-bills/ "Yahoo!’s resident toublemaker weighs in on the past and present of contextual advertising" Hey! That's me...
Posted by jzawodn at 12:46 PM

April 18, 2006

Firefox Bus

http://kalyan.livejournal.com/204212.html now that's funny... a Firefox themed bus in India
Posted by jzawodn at 07:46 AM

April 17, 2006

Stop the madness: SHOW STATUS

http://jcole.us/blog/archives/2006/04/13/stop-the-madness-show-status/ it looks like team MySQL kinda screwed up on this one
Posted by jzawodn at 08:23 PM

Midfield Aviation

http://www.flymidfield.net/ Patrick is an excellent mechanic. He's going to put a new magneto on our plane.
Posted by jzawodn at 11:23 AM

April 12, 2006

FireBug

https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=1843&application=firefox FireBug lets you explore the far corners of the DOM by keyboard or mouse. All of the tools you need to poke, prod, and monitor your JavaScript, CSS, HTML and Ajax are brought together into one seamless experience, including an error console, command line,
Posted by jzawodn at 04:00 PM

Anti-tank dog - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-tank_dog "Anti-tank dogs, also known as dog mines, are starving dogs with explosives harnessed to their back, trained to seek food under enemy tanks and armoured vehicles. By doing so, a small wooden lever would be tipped, detonating the explosives."
Posted by jzawodn at 11:46 AM

The Love/Hate T-Shirt

http://accordionguy.blogware.com/blog/_archives/2006/4/12/1881414.html a clever shirt design
Posted by jzawodn at 11:23 AM

RAVE: My cheating husband!!!

http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/sfo/141149695.html "You've been to the movies, you've had study dates. The next logical step is fucking. So put down the goddamn books and get your mouth on hers. Let's step it up! I want to go buy myself some shoes! "
Posted by jzawodn at 11:23 AM

the almonds move

http://fun.sdinet.de/pics/augenkrebs/The_latest_works3.gif but only when you eyes do
Posted by jzawodn at 08:25 AM

Ogle Earth

http://www.ogleearth.com/ A blog about Google Earth.
Posted by jzawodn at 08:25 AM

Google Earth Community

http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/ubbthreads.php/Cat/0 lots of forums to troll
Posted by jzawodn at 08:25 AM

Plugins « WordPress Codex

http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugins "Plugins are tools to extend the functionality of WordPress."
Posted by jzawodn at 08:24 AM

It's official -- beans make you fart

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060412/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_beans man, I had this particular nut cracked YEARS ago!
Posted by jzawodn at 08:24 AM

Thomas Dolby’s Blog

http://blog.thomasdolby.com/ the "she blinded me with science" guy has a blog and it's pretty good
Posted by jzawodn at 08:23 AM

Google Earth Plus

http://earth.google.com/earth_plus.html "Google Earth Plus is an optional, upgraded version of Google Earth available for $20"
Posted by jzawodn at 08:23 AM

Google will meet 2006-Q1 earnings, but stock will still drop ;)

http://www.awadallah.com/blog/2006/04/11/google-will-meet-2006-q1-earnings-but-stock-will-still-drop/ Amr is making more GOOG stock predictions
Posted by jzawodn at 07:02 AM

AutoIt v3 - Automate and Script Windows Tasks

http://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3/ "AutoIt v3 is a freeware BASIC-like scripting language designed for automating the Windows GUI and general scripting."
Posted by jzawodn at 07:00 AM

The Psycho Moment: Engagement

http://bristol.craigslist.org/about/best/chi/28204977.html "So I did what I figured I should do - I went out shopping for a diamond ring... That was the biggest mistake I ever made."
Posted by jzawodn at 07:00 AM

April 11, 2006

The Lightning Project - Integrated Calendar

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/lightning.html a calendar for thunderbird?!
Posted by jzawodn at 10:46 PM

The Making of a World Record out of Minden

http://mindensoaringclub.com/int2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=75&Itemid=0 a nice write up of flying last year at Minden
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 PM

BeyondVC: Remember Long Term Capital?

http://www.beyondvc.com/2006/03/remember_long_t.html spooky similarities between Google and Long Term Capital Management, the hedge fund that crashed and burned back in the 90s
Posted by jzawodn at 07:00 PM

SSNs and Security

http://www.windley.com/archives/2006/04/ssns_and_securi.shtml To tour the white house, you need to email your Social Security Number to the government--unencrypted. WTF?!
Posted by jzawodn at 06:46 PM

Five suggested Flickr tags

http://www.5ives.com/archives/2006/04/11/five-suggested-flickr-tags/ heh. so true. so very true.
Posted by jzawodn at 05:46 PM

The First 100 Days: Observations of a Nouveau Blogger

http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2006/04/the_first_100_d.html Guys hit some nails on the head, except for those he misses.
Posted by jzawodn at 05:46 PM

PooPeGifts.com

http://www.poopegifts.com/ the special gift for that not so special someone
Posted by jzawodn at 05:23 PM

Salt removes red wine at FactoryCity

http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2006/04/11/salt-removes-red-wine/ I had no idea
Posted by jzawodn at 12:23 PM

Search Engine Journal » Mystery of the Yahoo Sock Monkey on YPN Blog

http://www.searchenginejournal.com/?p=3242 the sock monkey is our secret weapon!
Posted by jzawodn at 08:23 AM

April 10, 2006

The nonsense about AdSense

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13129-2123601,00.html "Google, as a virtual company, is largely uncontactable, and judging by this instance, pretty much unaccountable as well."
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 PM

Yahoo! Publisher Network blog

http://ypnblog.com/ the ypn blog has launched
Posted by jzawodn at 08:23 AM

April 09, 2006

Relative Openness of Mapping APIs

http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2006/04/relative_openness_of_mapping_a.html some good comments about the varous on-line mapping services
Posted by jzawodn at 08:46 AM

April 08, 2006

A VC: While Big Companies Deliberate, Small Companies Obliterate

http://avc.blogs.com/a_vc/2006/04/while_big_compa.html "We are still trying to get a consensus internally around the idea and to get support from the key constituents"
Posted by jzawodn at 11:46 PM

How I'm using Amazon S3 to serve media files

http://www.holovaty.com/blog/archive/2006/04/07/0927 "S3 is very cheap -- 15 cents a month for each gig of storage (and I have only 936 K of media files) and 20 cents per gig bandwidth. That's peanuts."
Posted by jzawodn at 11:23 PM

April 07, 2006

Tired of Geek Talk

http://mike.kruckenberg.com/archives/2006/04/tired_of_geek_t.html 'The second kind of conversation is where people try to "outgeek" the others. The responses are less about exchange of ideas and more about proving that you know more than the next person.'
Posted by jzawodn at 11:23 AM

Nelson is leaving Google

http://www.somebits.com/weblog/life/leavingGoogle.html congrats!
Posted by jzawodn at 11:02 AM

SQL on Rails

http://www2.sqlonrails.org/ watch the screencast. be amused. be very amused.
Posted by jzawodn at 11:00 AM

April 06, 2006

YouTube - Chevy Tahoe commercial

http://youtube.com/watch?v=XA6dLFrAFlI god bless the internets...
Posted by jzawodn at 06:23 PM

Podcasts are huge; it's just the audience that's tiny

http://blogs.siliconvalley.com/gmsv/2006/04/podcasts_very_b.html heh. well said.
Posted by jzawodn at 04:48 PM

YouTube - Chevy Tahoe SUV God

http://youtube.com/watch?v=foR3sfWu5IQ "The Earth is Now Your Bitch"
Posted by jzawodn at 04:46 PM

Tales from the Loonybin » Demystifying Mail.app Plugins – A Tutorial

http://www.bazza.com/~eaganj/weblog/2006/03/29/demystifying-mail-app-plugins one can write Mail.app plugins in Python. Who knew?!
Posted by jzawodn at 04:23 PM

April 05, 2006

What's New in Python 2.5

http://docs.python.org/dev/whatsnew/whatsnew25.html I really, really, really need to learn me some Py one of these days... or years.
Posted by jzawodn at 09:23 PM

Cohabiting is bad for women's health - but not men's

http://www.scienceblog.com/cms/cohabiting_is_bad_for_womens_health_but_not_mens_10355.html well, duh!
Posted by jzawodn at 09:23 PM

Things to do and eat in Silicon Valley

http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/things-to-do-and-eat-in-silicon-valley/ Matt made a good list last year and I kinda forgot about it
Posted by jzawodn at 08:46 PM

Forrester podcasting report

http://blogs.forrester.com/charleneli/2006/04/forrester_podca_1.html just 1% use podcasts
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 PM

Good camcorder for porn?

http://ask.metafilter.com/mefi/35782 oh, like you haven't wondered... at least a litle.
Posted by jzawodn at 06:00 PM

Help Win My Bet

http://www.helpwinmybet.com/ "if I could make a website to get 2,000,000 hits, she would have a menage a trois (that's a threesome to you non french-speakers)"
Posted by jzawodn at 05:23 PM

April 04, 2006

Just how effective is chiropractor back cracking?

http://ask.metafilter.com/mefi/35719 this question (and the answers) cracked me up for so many reasons...
Posted by jzawodn at 04:46 PM

defective yeti: Undercooking Light

http://www.defectiveyeti.com/archives/001635.html '"One cup" is the fundamental, atomic unit of cheese -- did the editors of Cooking Light think we would not know this?'
Posted by jzawodn at 04:02 PM

Michael Jackson - Thriller - Google Video

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4780918032680218498 a classic. saldy, they provide only 30 sec of video. WTF?!
Posted by jzawodn at 04:00 PM

Raise an ALE to Google Maps API v2

http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2006/04/ale_ajax_linking_and_embedding.html "ALE: Ajax Linking and Embedding"
Posted by jzawodn at 03:55 PM

180 From The Inside Out

http://www.revenews.com/jimmydaniels/2006/03/180_from_the_inside_out.html "So I emailed him and asked him for an interview about what it was like to work for 180solutions, here it is below."
Posted by jzawodn at 03:53 PM

Slides from PHP Québec Conf 2006

http://zak.greant.com/slides-from-php-quebec-conf-2006/ including "SQLite: A fast, transactional DBMS embedded in PHP 5"
Posted by jzawodn at 03:52 PM

BubbleShare: Photos from Funny Mix06 Photos

http://www.bubbleshare.com/album/20960.d3cbc43cc0f/398121 wherein I am bubbled
Posted by jzawodn at 03:50 PM

mozdev.org - downthemall

http://downthemall.mozdev.org/ "DownThemAll! (or just DtA) is a powerful yet easy-to-use Mozilla Firefox extension that adds new advanced downloading capabilities to your browser. DtA lets you download in just one click all the links or images contained in a webpage;"
Posted by jzawodn at 03:48 PM

Auto Copy for Firefox

https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=383&application=firefox "Select text and it's automaticaly copied to the clipboard."
Posted by jzawodn at 03:46 PM

At the IT Conversations Helm

http://www.windley.com/archives/2006/04/at_the_it_conve.shtml "Doug Kaye has asked me to be the Executive Producer of IT Conversations" congrats to Phil!
Posted by jzawodn at 02:51 PM

AOL changes name to AOL

http://blogs.siliconvalley.com/gmsv/2006/04/following_in_th.html here we go again...
Posted by jzawodn at 02:49 PM

Oh that? It's our new PPPP (Pay Per Pop-up Program)

http://blogs.siliconvalley.com/gmsv/2006/04/good_thing_for_.html "Now, it's important to note that it's not Yahoo allegedly defrauding advertisers here, but a bad partner in its network."
Posted by jzawodn at 02:48 PM

Google Maps API Version 2 released

http://blogs.zdnet.com/web2explorer/?p=151 fantastic stuff
Posted by jzawodn at 02:46 PM

The Spyware - Click-Fraud Connection -- and Yahoo's Role Revisited

http://www.benedelman.org/news/040406-1.html "when a spyware vendor can't find advertisers to buy its ad inventory directly, the spyware vendor can show Yahoo ads instead." Yikes!
Posted by jzawodn at 01:23 PM

What I do for a living...

http://chuqui.typepad.com/teal_sunglasses/2006/04/what_i_do_for_a.html "You see -- I run the Reality Distortion Field." hahaha!
Posted by jzawodn at 10:46 AM

Code Elegance, Code Balance

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000556.html the visual appearance of code matters
Posted by jzawodn at 08:23 AM

April 02, 2006

Hubble's Sharpest View of the Orion Nebula

http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/newsdesk/archive/releases/2006/01/image/a a fantastic image
Posted by jzawodn at 09:46 PM

Trusted Computing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1H7omJW4TI and how it sucks for most of us
Posted by jzawodn at 02:46 PM

Sleep no more

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20060401.wxawake01/BNStory/specialScienceandHealth/?pageRequested=all&print=true Meet modafinil, "the first wave of new lifestyle drugs that promise to do for sleep what the contraceptive pill did for sex -- unshackle it from nature"
Posted by jzawodn at 01:46 PM

Wireless Extension Cords

http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/41/wec.shtml?cpg=28T Kick Ass!
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 AM

April 01, 2006

danah on O'Reilly Factor

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Nfyw2KYHWw no joke!
Posted by jzawodn at 07:00 AM